Program

6 Nov 2016 19:30

Dejvické Theatre: A Blockage in the System

A Blockage in the System is based on the short story collection The Acid House written by the well-known Scottish novelist Irvine ‘Trainspotting’ Welsh. Daniel Majling's stage adaptation, while centered only on one of the stories, paints a sensitive portrayal of Edinburgh's underbelly and keeps Welsh's poetics fresh. Given the Alfred Radok Award, the top Czech theatre award for the Best Play and the Best Actor (ivan trojan) in 2012, it is considered the most vulgar play in Dejvické Theatre's history.

The abstract in the second Czech edition of the book published in 2008 says:(...)
It is Welsh’s second book, full of “pictures of the scum’s social
life”. And he lived up to his reputation, examining again the dark
corners of the world and a soul. (...) Being a member of the Edinburgh’s
working class, the narrator talks big, his language is horrifying, full
of vulgarisms, slang phrases, mangled and pseudowords but it is by no
means drab and boring. That’s because there is humor in it, although it
is rather black, cynical and brutal - but is there another way to
describe the real life? And there is also one rule - that there’s no
happy ending among the short stories and that it has never been so bad
that it couldn’t be worse.

THE RUDEST PLAY IN DEJVICKÉ THEATRE'S HISTORY!
Considering a great number of swear words that are an essential part of
dialogues of the play, it is not suitable for spectators younger than 15 years
and the ones particulary sensitive to such way of speaking

Ivan Trojan nominated for the Thalia Awards

„By far Prague‘s funniest
play in years“
Vladimír Mikulka, Respekt

„Incredibly coarse, vulgar and
entertaining“
Vojtěch Varyš, Týden

About Dejvické TheatreIn October
2017, Dejvické Theatre will celebrate
the quarter of a century that has passed since its founding. During that time
it has built a reputation as one of the most popular and most visited Czech
theatres. The consistently sold-out theatre offers performances of different
genres that have a common denominator: good theatre, with clarity and an
emphasis on acting personalities. Since its inception, the theatre has been
theatre of the year five times, and a number of major awards have been won not
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